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Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP Available Now — Today we released Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP. I encourage everyone to download the final version from http://www.microsoft.com/ie. — We listened carefully to feedback from many sources (including this blog) …
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Microsoft Releases Windows Internet Explorer 7 for Windows XP — Enhanced security technologies, new experiences enable customers to browse the Web with confidence and ease. — Microsoft Corp. today released to the public Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 for Windows XP …
Apple:
Apple Reports Preliminary Fourth Quarter Results — Ships Record 1.61 Million Macs — Apple® today announced preliminary financial results for its fiscal 2006 fourth quarter ended September 30, 2006. These preliminary results may be subject to significant adjustment as a result of a likely restatement of historical results.
New York Times:
Music Companies Grab a Share of the YouTube Sale — YouTube's young founders may have been the biggest beneficiaries of last week's $1.65 billion deal with Google, but they have some unexpected bedfellows — old-line media companies that had been considered YouTube's biggest legal threat.
CRN Breaking News:
Vista, Office 2007 To Launch in NY After Thanksgiving — Microsoft plans post-Turkey-Day kickoff in the Big Apple. — 6:26 PM EDT Tue. — The long-touted Microsoft Vista/Office 2007 tandem launch is on for the last week in November in New York, sources said. This event will focus on business usage and scenarios.
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Thomas Crampton / New York Times:
Moscow Music Site Defends Free Downloads — A Web site based in Moscow that the United States Commerce Department has branded as the world's highest-volume online seller of pirated music plans to release hundreds of thousands of albums free, the site said. — Low prices and ease of use …
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Philiplinden / Official Linden Blog:
1,000,000 residents = Happy! Crushing Signup Load = Sad! — Congratulations to the whole SL community and all of us at Linden Lab on reaching 1 Million residents signed up!! Second Life is growing because together we are all building content, welcoming new people, expanding the community, and adding new capabilities to the system.
Wall Street Journal:
Record Labels Turn Piracy Into a Marketing Opportunity — A video clip from Jay-Z's live concert in June at Radio City Music Hall is popping up on all sorts of illicit music-sharing hotspots. But Jay-Z isn't upset. — That's because the rapper, at the request of Coca-Cola Co. …
Aline van Duyn / Financial Times:
BusinessWeek looks to web in battle for readers — For the editor-in-chief of the world's biggest business magazine, one goal is paramount: keeping his title on the "must read" list. — "You don't want to be a discretionary read, that is too dangerous," says Stephen Adler …
overstated.net:
Amazon launches answers site — Today I received an invite to join a new community at Amazon called Askville: … This site will compete with Yahoo! Answers and Microsoft Q&A in the free question-answering space except that it might be able to leverage the Amazon community of experts.
Alexbarnett / alexbarnett.net blog:
Support tagging — Christopher Carfi threw out a interesting idea yesterday... The post Christopher refers to by Shel is here. It's classic blogger behaviour: I have a problem and hopefully one of my readers can help me out. — I do this from time to time myself and it works. Many do this.
Mitch Ratcliffe / Rational rants:
Ms. Dewey: Taking cute too far — If you haven't seen Ms. Dewey, you will probably be hearing about her. She's trying to kill the memory of Jeeves, who you formerly asked. She's also a disaster as far as UI goes. — Built in Flash, Ms. Dewey is an antropomorphized search page that features …
Patrick Barnard / TMCnet:
LiveJournal Adds Gizmo, Letting Users Make Free VoIP Calls — For months, maybe even years now you've been reading about how click-to-call VoIP services are gradually being integrated into Web sites to facilitate peer-to-peer voice communications between users.
TrustedReviews:
Touchscreen iPod Comes This December — Touchscreen iPod Comes This December — The iPod/iPhone rumour mill is something so clouded that as TR News Ed I made the executive decision to circumvent the vast majority of it a long time ago, but yesterday I had a conversation with an extremely well informed exec which I'm going to share.
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Kyle Orland / Next Generation:
GAMING'S TOP 50 JOURNALISTS — Who are the 50 most influential journalists in the U.S games industry? We decided to find a freelancer crazy enough to compile and write up an actual list. Be warned, some of the pictures within are of a disturbing nature.
Mike / Techdirt:
Another Potential Problem With Muni-WiFi: You Need To Deal With Politicians — from the no-room-for-pork-in-wifi dept — While municipal internet access can be a valid option for providing some form of internet access to residents or businesses where they might not have any other choice …
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Gizmodo:
Tumi's Solar-powered Backpack Charges Your Gadgets on the Go — We've shown some love for Tumi backpacks in the past, so it's no surprise we'd fall head over heels for their new limited edition backpack which charges your gadgets via its built-in solar panel.
Paul F. Roberts / InfoWorld:
Microsoft: Excuses on iPod virus not credible — Redmond virus scanning expert offers to help clean up iPod mess — Security and quality assurance experts reacted negatively to Apple Computer's efforts Tuesday to blame manufacturing problems that resulted in iPod MP3 players shipping …
